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Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved

From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved
Date	2025-11-12 11:00 -0800
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On 12 Nov 2025 18:40:09 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> > I wonder how many projects I made failed because of printing typos
> > :-/  
> 
> Those BASIC programs printed in magazines that required PUSHing half
> a page of hex values must have been fun. Years ago I had a TracFone
> where actuation required entering 24, iirc, hex values. Great fun. 

Compute's Gazette actually developed a checksum system for those pages
upon pages of DATA statements so's readers could catch and correct
typing errors on a line-by-line basis o_O

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            Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-11-12 13:14 +0000
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          Re: Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 18:47 +0000
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